Mark 5:9
Then He asked him, “What is your name?” And he answered, saying, “Legion is my name, because we are many.”
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
In Context
8Because He was saying to him, “You unclean spirit, come out of the man!”
10He started begging Him repeatedly that He would not send them out of that region.
Cross References
Matthew 12:45Then it goes and takes along with itself seven different spirits, more malignant than itself, and going in it dwells there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Just so it will be for this malignant generation also.”
Mark 5:15They came to Jesus and observed the man who had been demonized, who had the legion, sitting and clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
Luke 11:21“When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his possessions are safe.
Matthew Henry on Mark 5:2-21
The Expulsion of Legion. 1 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. 2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, 3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: 4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. 5 And always, night and… Read the whole commentary →